different between mosey vs jog

English

Alternative forms

• mosy, mozey, mozy

Etymology

Unknown. Originally attested in Southern US dialects. Suggested origins include:

• Spanish vamos (compare vamoose)
• British dialectal mose about (“walk around stupidly”)
• an Algonquian term for "walk" (compare Ojibwe bimose (“she or he walks along”))

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mo?.zi/

Verb

mosey (third-person singular simple present moseys, present participle moseying, simple past and past participle moseyed)

1. (chiefly US, dialectal) To set off, get going; to start a journey.
   • 1910, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard, chapter 1:

     Haven't got time. I must mosey up to the North End to see a man who has got a lovely throat. Nobody can find out what is the matter. He has puzzled all the doctors.

2. (chiefly US, dialectal) To go off quickly: to hurry up.
3. (chiefly US, dialectal) To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner.
   • 1919, William MacLeod Raine, A Man Four-Square, chapter 6:

     We'll mosey along toward the river. Kinder take it easy an' drift the herd down slow so as to let the cattle put on flesh.

Translations

Usage notes

• Associated especially with the dialect of the Old West.

Anagrams

• Moyes, Moyse

English

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down". Perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jolt, shake; depart, go”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schocken (“to shog”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skokkan (“to move, shake, tremble”). More at shock.

Alternatively from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

jog (plural jogs)

1. An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
2. A sudden push or nudge.
3. (theater) A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.

   Synonym: return piece

   • 1974, Earle Ernst, The Kabuki Theatre (page 143)

     This angle is somewhat more acute than that of the right and left walls of the Western box set; but unlike the walls of the box set, the Kabuki wall is never broken up by a jog or by a succession of jogs.

Translations

Verb

jog (third-person singular simple present jogs, present participle jogging, simple past and past participle jogged)

1. To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.

   jog one's elbow

   • c. 1593, John Donne, Satire I,^[1]

     Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see

     Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee

     That dances so divinely

   • 1725, Alexander Pope (translator), Homer’s Odyssey, London: Lintot, Volume 3, Book 14, p. 271,^[2]

     When now was wasted more than half the night,

     And the stars faded at approaching light;

     Sudden I jogg’d Ulysses, who was laid

     Fast by my side, and shiv’ring thus I said.

2. To shake, stir or rouse.

   I tried desperately to jog my memory.

3. To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
   • c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3,^[3]

     Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way.

   • 1673, John Milton, “Another on the same” preceded by “On the University Carrier, who sickn’d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague” referring to Thomas Hobson, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: Tho. Dring, p. 33,^[4]

     Here lieth one who did most truly prove,

     That he could never die while he could move,

     So hung his destiny, never to rot,

     While he might still jogg on and keep his trot,

   • 1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, p. 95,^[5]

     When we had towed about four Days more, our Gunner, who was our Pilot, begun to observe that we did not keep our right Course so exactly as we ought, the River winding away a little towards the North, and gave us Notice accordingly. However, we were not willing to lose the Advantage of Water-Carriage, at least not till we were forced to it; so we jogg’d on, and the River served us about Threescore Miles further […]

   • 1835, Robert Browning, “Paracelsus” Part 4,^[6]

     That fiery doctor who had hailed me friend,

     Did it because my by-paths, once proved wrong

     And beaconed properly, would commend again

     The good old ways our sires jogged safely o’er,

     Though not their squeamish sons; […]

4. (exercise) To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
5. To cause to move at an energetic trot.

   to jog a horse

6. To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.

Translations

Related terms

• jogging

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

jog

1. first-person singular present indicative of joggen
2. imperative of joggen

Anagrams

• goj

Hungarian

Etymology

From jó (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?jo?]
• Hyphenation: jog
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

jog (countable and uncountable, plural jogok)

1. right (as a legal, just or moral entitlement)
2. law (the body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community; jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• törvény (“law in a more concrete sense”)

References

• Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmez? kéziszótár (’A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. ?ISBN

Lithuanian

Conjunction

jog

1. that

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) jo'ug

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *joki.

Noun

jog

1. (Salaca) river

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• jaga, jaget, jagde

Verb

jog

1. simple past of jage